The Earth, the heavens, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington / edited by Gregory A. Good ; with a foreword by Maxine Singer.

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English
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Washington, D.C. : American Geophysical Union, 1994.
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1 online resource (xiii, 252 pages) : illustrations, map

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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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Contents
  • Andrew Carnegie and Charles Doolittle Walcott: the origin and early years of the Carnegie Institution of Washington / Ellis L Yochelson
  • Development and promotion of the initial scientific program for the geophysical laboratory / H S Yoder
  • Vision of a global physics: The Carnegie Institution and the first world magnetic survey / Gregory A Good
  • Vilhelm Bjerknes's duty to produce something clear and real in meteorological science / Ralph Jewell
  • Climate and history: Raphael Pumpelly's geoarcheological expeditions to Turkestan / Peggy Champlin
  • Weighing the Earth from a submarine: the gravity measuring cruise of the U.S.S. S-21 / Naomi Oreskes
  • Amundsen and Edmonds: entrepreneurial and institutional exploration / S M Silverman, Marion Edmonds Smith
  • Expeditions and the CIW: comments and contentions / Ronald E Doel
  • Sharing a mountaintop: the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory on Mount Wilson / R S Brashear
  • A fox raiding the hedgehogs: how Henry Norris Russell got to Mt. Wilson / David H Devorkin
  • Converting an hypothesis into a research program: T.C. Chamberlin, his planetesimal hypothesis, and its effect on research at the Mt. Wilson Observatory / N S Hetherington
  • Women and women's work at Mt. Wilson Observatory before World War II / John Lankford
  • Commentary on the Mt. Wilson papers / Owen Gingerich
  • The big story: Tuve, Breit, and ionospheric sounding, 1923-1928 / C Stewart Gillmor
  • Building a Washington network for atmospheric research / Bruce Hevly
  • To Watheroo and back: the DTM in Australia, 1911-1947 / R W Home
  • Some memories of the Watheroo Magnetic Observatory / W D Parkinson
  • A Canadian life with geomagnetism: the research of Frank T. Davies / J E Kennedy, W O Kupsch
  • Dr. C.T. Kwei and the Carnegie in China in 1930s and 1940s / Wang Shen, Liang Baixian, Hu Xinru
  • Chopping and changing at the DTM 1946-1958: M.A. Tuve, rock magnetism, and isotope dating / H E Le Grand
  • Merle A. Tuve's post-war geophysics: early explosion seismology / Thomas D Cornell
  • Isotope geology at Carnegie 1950-1970: dating earth processes / L T Aldrich
  • Archival sources for the history of geosciences / Deborah Day
  • Sources for the history of the Carnegie Institution of Washington at the Office of Administration / John Strom
  • The Carnegie Institution of Washington's contributions to the physical sciences: archival sources at the Huntington Library / R S Brashear
  • Sources for history of geophysics at the Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics / Ronald E Doel
  • The earth and space sciences at Carnegie: a pictorial sampler from the first six decades / Shaun J Hardy.
ISBN
  • 9781118665312 ((electronic bk.))
  • 1118665317 ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
608839574
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